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This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It (technologyreview.com)
Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. From a report: The idea came about in early 2017, president of Three Square Market Patrick McMullan says, when he was on a business trip to Sweden -- a country where some people are getting subcutaneous microchips to do things like enter secure buildings or book train tickets. It's one of very few places where chip implants, which have been around for quite a while, have taken off in some fashion. The chips he and his employees got are about the size of a very large grain of rice. They're intended to make it a little easier to do things like get into the office, log on to computers, and buy food and drinks in the company cafeteria. Like many RFID chips, they are passive -- they don't have batteries, and instead get their power from an RFID reader when it requests data from the chip.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
A year into their experiment, McMullan and a few employees say they are still using the chips regularly at work for all the activities they started out with last summer. Since then, an additional 30 employees have gotten the chips, which means that roughly 80 of the company's now 250 employees, or nearly a third, are walking, talking cyborgs. "You get used to it; it's easy," McMullan says. As far as he knows, just two Three Square Market employees have had their chips removed -- and that was when they left the company.
The materials used to encapsulate these is quite well understood., often it is glass. Cancer risk seems low as this material has been used in humans and animals for many decades.
If you were serious about preventing cancer you'd end the use of gasoline powered vehicles in major cities (benzene, etc), stop using those plug-in air fresheners (Acetaldehyde and 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol), regulate ingredients in sunscreen (oxybenzone), etc.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Come on... We all watch sci-fi here. All you need to remove your own tracking implant is a dirty mirror, a dull butter knife, a bottle of vodka, and a lighter to cauterize the wound.
That said, I'm sure any doctor would remove a foreign body from your hand without needing your employer's approval.
Liberals, leftists, communists, socialists, terrorists, antfa thugs, feminists. Such a list!